Saturday, 13 February 2016

Printer's Waste

The last blog post was
about pages from a medieval manuscript Missal being utilised as pastedowns in a copy of
Vital de Four’s Speculum Moralae printed by Jean de Moylin in Lyon in 1513 (ODS 00446).In this
book from the Phillips collection, a commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew printed in Basil in
1567, the pastedowns are formed from printer’s waste, with pieces of medieval
manuscript reused to strengthen the book’s joints.Coincidentally
the sheets of printer’s waste used for this purpose, are taken from another copy
of Vital du Four's Speculum Moralae, printed by Jean de Moylin in Lyon in 1513.The same printing as
ODS. 00446!

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Art and architectural historian and Anglican clergyman, Allan Barton obtained his MA in Medieval Studies and Ph.D in Art History at the University of York. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.